Hajj

The sound of gunfire first alerted Said Habib Sadat to trouble near Kabul’s Shah-Do Shamshira shrine. The 56-year-old furrier, who was making a sheepskin cap, heard the shots coming just a few feet from his store on the banks of the Kabul River. He went to the shrine and was shocked to see that the green railing above its outer walls had been toppled by a crowd of hundreds of young men screaming "God is great." Worshipers inside the shrine claimed to have captured a woman they said had been burning pages from the Koran, the Muslim holy book. One held charred pages over his head, Habib recalled. Shopkeepers said they saw the body of the woman, identified by only her...

A 42-year-old Chicago travel agent is accused of cheating at least 50 customers out of about $525,000 spent on travel packages for an Islamic religious pilgrimage to Mecca, federal authorities said Thursday.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheila Finnegan on...

Ahmadiya muslim community gathered to celebrate Eid ul Azha on Sunday, October 5th in Baitul Jamaay Mosque on route 53 and Butterfield in Glenn Ellyn. Eid-ul-Adhia. Eid-ul-Adhia marks Prophet Abraham's symbolic sacrifice and the close of the Hajj...

Skokie IL: On Sunday October 05, 2014 Muslims from all over the metropolitan area joyfully bustled into the Bristol Court Banquet, 828 East Rand Road, Mount Prospect, IL to join in on the global celebrations of Eid-ul-Adha. While there were various...

Chicago Dramatists announced its 2014-15 season on Tuesday. This is the playwright-centric theater’s first roster of work since the 2012-2013 season. Its last show was “Homecoming 1972” in May, 2013.
Beginning in March is “The Mecca Tales” (March 13 -...

Matteson, IL – Matteson Public Library received a $ 4,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA) to host a five-part reading and discussion series titled “Let’s Talk About It: Muslim Journeys....

Matteson, IL – Matteson Public Library received a $ 4,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA) to host a five-part reading and discussion series titled “Let’s Talk About It: Muslim Journeys....

The sound of gunfire first alerted Said Habib Sadat to trouble near Kabul’s Shah-Do Shamshira shrine.
The 56-year-old furrier, who was making a sheepskin cap, heard the shots coming just a few feet from his store on the banks of the Kabul River. He...

The World Health Organization's emergency committee on the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, or MERS-CoV, met Wednesday.
After hearing updates on the spread of the virus -- which as of Sept. 20 had killed 58 of the 130 people confirmed to...